Tzu chi English Educational Practical Wisdom Being able to express your opinion Speaking Active Listening with understanding Listening Adding new thoughts to the discussion Creativity Asking poignant questions Questions Team Building Skills Fostered in this Class Central points It takes lots of experience to learn how to care for people; Strive to be the moral heroes to the people that you mentor; Pay attention to what we do and how we do it The single most important thing that kids need to learn is character Create a word bank for discussion Wisdom comes from experience; Incentives sometimes clash Know how to improvise Wisdom is to serve not to manipulate When and how to make the exception to every rule You don’t need to be brilliant to be wise Without wisdom brilliance isn’t enough Nurture moral skill and moral will Christopher Bauman – www.chrisbauman.com.au

Cutting edge People are inspired by moral heroes 1. Make a job description for a janitor? (what human interactions could you include?) ____________________________________________________________________________________________? Advanced Question Words Made not born Cutting edge 2. Practical wisdom is the combination of moral will and moral skill ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ? 3. A jazz musician – inventing music appropriate for the situation and the people at hand ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ? Kindness; care & empathy 4. Time to improvise and gain experience, permission to gain experience, willingness to learn from failures, be mentored by wise teachers ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ? Ambiguous and ill- defined Time is racing 5. How do you measure empathy? ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ? Think of an ordinary hero Swimming against the current Moral skill is chipped away by an over reliance on rules People are inspired by moral heroes 6. Rules are needed, but too many rules assure mediocrity. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ? 7. Ask not just is it profitable, but is it right? ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ? Daily failure 8. Think of something within the scope of your ability that is the right thing to do ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ? Talent is rampant Celebrate moral exemplars (heroes); know the people around you; any work that involves interaction with other people is moral work…. Add to this list - Christopher Bauman – www.chrisbauman.com.au